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Kinopio Future Paths

card: start sticky = build a xy map of non-stick areas like resize from the original rect. then stop sticking if current pos is in a map area. esp test on

quality of life

[Inspiration]

💐 Kinopio Roadmap

💐 [New] Under-the-hood Improvements:

- performance improvements to how spaces load, in some cases reducing space loading times by 50%
- collaboration stability and performance improvements, noticeable when real-time collaborators are paint selecting, moving their cursor, and updating items
- fixes for crashes and sync errors that could happen during collaboration
- drawing performance improvements, most noticeable in large spaces with drawings
- added a new 'debug grid' background
- dark mode fixes

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Add lines from the toolbar (or with ‘L’) to mark pages, sections, slides, and other large or variable height areas that can be cumbersome to manage with boxes alone. Jump between lines, and make room in busy spaces with their ‘Select All Below’ button.

💁‍♀️ Fixes in the Latest Release:

- Stricter rules for Comment Only spaces, non-members cannot resize boxes, change fonts, or connect items that are created by other users
- Fix Font Preview (Aa) if card has [] or tags
- Fix Font Preview crashing when selecting items with different fonts
- Font Preview also includes selected card/box color
- Fixed a bug preventing adding multiple tags to a card through the Tag button
- Manually removing tags from the sidebar, now correctly deletes them from the server
- Fixed a bug where adding tags would change their color

🎑 Recent Updates and Fixes

- Fixed connections not being correctly created through the Connect button in multipleSelectedActions dialog
- Fixed bulk email sending, Weekly Review emails now send again every Sunday (unless you unsubscribed)
- Cards with images or video display transparent background color, even if you have a card color set, to look better with non-rectangular images/animated gifs
- The focusing animation on cards and boxes when you click a search result, minimap box, or follow a card link clears after the pulsing animation completes
- increased amount of padding you get when you expand boxes by dragging a card near the edge, to give a less claustrophobic feeling
- [server-side] added card.isTodo and box.isTodo attributes and GET routes, for devs to do quicker checkbox item lookups
- New line scrolling in a max height CardDetails textarea cursor position is now correct
- @zachahn improved URL handling for ?hidden=true, and also added unit testing to the app
- Fixed can't sign in to /add page in browser extension or incognito
- On /add page and sidebar→inbox, check that the user has an Inbox space and show an error if they don't

🐸 Recent Fixes

- Fixed Safari bug where closing ConnectionDetails would cause a scroll to the top of the page
- iOS share sheet now loads correctly
- When using the iOS share sheet or browser extensions to add URLs to the Inbox, the URL cards will now show url previews
- Cards added to the Inbox this way will be more cleanly separated
- Holding the space key while in Drawing mode now pans the page as expected
- Fixed a bug that prevented certain animated GIFs from loading
- Fixed Chrome bug where adding cards to the current space from Sidebar → Inbox would fail
- Fixed Chrome bug preventing multiple copy/paste operations
- If you have system scrollbars are set to always display, the CardDetails input only displays a scrollbar if there's scrollable content
- Fixed regression: when typing a card name, other cards directly below it shimmy downwards to avoid overlap
- @Lucas added unit tests to the server's authorization methods. This will be especially important later when adding the ability to collaborate with non-users
- Unused/partially typed tags in cards will be cleaned up when the card is closed so that you'll only see tags that you've actually used

To make it a little easier to select the right h1/h2 fonts, a preview is displayed in the ‘Aa’ font picker.

Boxes can grow to envelop cards when you drag them over edges. Boxes snap together the same way. Handy for making your own grids, kanbans, and calendars.

🌵 Recent fixes

- fixed /inbox route
- visible: connection type color swatch in 'use last type' button
- visible: multiple selected connections Type button swatches
- fixed remote space loading error, now correctly falls back to your last loaded space when an error occurs
- prevent app from only displaying an empty page when api is down
- simplify how scheduled tasks are run on api, potentially to prevent memory leaks
- improved sync reliability: if requests don't make it to the server, it'll try the same requests again on next refresh.

recent updates ⤵

before, to open card links, you had to click an → button or open the card first.

increased max card tilt angle to 90deg and improved the tilt drag algo

Make boxes stand out with a box background image to create a visual portal to another world, or a section, or a slide.

Book Worm [New] A new Card Frame for reading enthusiasts, or wanna-be enthusiasts like me. Created by Dávid

https://yoursit.ee/xou

For sharing a presentation space with your audience, or when inviting someone IRL to collaborate

When the name of a card or box contains a headline, the fonts button will appear, allowing you to find the right font for your ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ

Make titles and headlines stand out – or Really stand out – with new size options for card and box header fonts.

(The window on the right shows someone pinging the person on the left who then scrolls towards the ping)

When you need to exclaim “Hey look over here!”, right-click to ping your position to everyone else in a space. They’ll be able to see it no matter where they are.

I wrote more about what this means and the reasons why I did this in

Making the Kinopio Source Code Public

The kinopio client application source code is now public so anyone can read it’s code and contribute to it.

Once a space has too many spectators or collaborators to display comfortably, they’ll nest inside a button that lets you view and manage the full list of users.

Shift-enter to add child card while zoomed out causes positi…

bug fixes

Toggle on comment mode to default to leave comments instead of regular cards when you don’t want to disrupt a space. To make it easier and safer to gather feedback, visitors to Open spaces can only leave comments.

You can view and hide comments from one place

See who favorited your space from Sidebar → Stats

Make some room in the middle of a crowded space by moving your mouse to the top of the page, then hold and drag to select the cards and boxes to the right

To make it easier to flip through past journal spaces, you can sort your spaces list by date created instead of by most recently updated

box to card

Just like how it works with cards, drag from boxes to create connections to cards, and to other boxes.

This is way nicer than first having to resize the box yourself to fit more things into it.

When you drag cards to the edge of a box and release, the box will grow to envelop them in it’s bosom-y embrace.

(Part 1 of 2 handy new box features, the next one will be announced tomorrow)

A nice way to add some quick polish to your finished spaces.

Double-click on a box resize handle in the bottom right to shrink a box around its contents.

Clicking on the name of a card URL now immediately opens it

If your boxes represent projects or hold groups of related cards, use box checkboxes to mark it complete, which’ll fade it out so you can focus elsewhere

Drag cards near the inside edge of a box and release to give yourself a bit more room to breathe

add checkbox icon is blank, removed ‘+’

spacelist: can now sort spaces list alphabetically

item tilt and resize can now be used on mobile, so long as you aren’t pinched too far out

new updates available notification now shows the name of the update

spacelist: changed behavior of ‘hidden’ to include hidden spaces in existing list. They appear transparent

remove button is first item in all detail views for consistency

item tilt and resize icons are visible on dark backgrounds

Bold/Italic Keyboard Shortcuts

quality of life

Use ⌘/CTRL-B and ⌘/CTRL-I to bold and italicize selected text in card name

Disable Keyboard Shortcut

quality of life

Because some people were accidentally triggering it, you can now disable the new space N keyboard shortcut.

bug

when connecting card to a card w a urlpreview, releasing over the urlpreview does not complete the connection

bug

non space members should not be able to add boxes (eg open space)

history time group (eg toggle url preview on card creates 2 records instead of 1)

quality of life

Remove changelog btn from notification, too noisy

Don’t check for new stuff if user isn’t signed in

serene.jpg | Are.na

cardlist height using virtual list. fixes Search in big spaces

quality of life

bug

spacedetails spacelist pagination detection w varied height/length prod spaces

dark mode: hover select above/below should be based on user color , not current theme

bug

moved blog updates to this changelog space for easier/funner posting

(I’ve personally wanted this forever)

When editing cards, the vertically aligned cards below will automatically adjust positions to stay aligned and prevent overlapping.

so now Kinopio can detect when your paste is just regular text from elsewhere, or when it’s Kinopio cards and boxes. Pasted kinopio items will maintain relative positioning, connections, and all attributes like colors, frames, etc.

Adding support for copying boxes led to a deep reworking of the copy/paste system:

Full details in the help doc

Groups

Group related spaces together and share them with multiple people at once. Each Group member can see and edit all of the spaces in a Group. Use Groups for projects, teams, or like personal folders – it’s really up to you.

fixed

connection path updates when card url preview type changes (all, image, text, none)

Press B to Surround Selected Cards in a Box [New Quality of Life Feature]

Hold Shift while dragging or resizing cards and boxes snaps them a grid. Helpful when you want to line things up perfectly – or make your own calendar

00:00/03:16

As usual, all notifications are one-click to unsubscribe.

Group Notifications [New] To make it easier to keep up with what’s new in a group, you’ll be notified when new spaces are added to a group you’re in.

shipped small performance improvements, and some under-the-hood foundational refactors that’ll be useful for mobile later on

added handling team invite urls in cards

Bulletin № 35

Keep your focus on a set of cards and tasks by wrapping them in a box and clicking the box filter button to fade everything else out.

Improved the reliability of the New Feature Update check – to make sure you’re always using the latest version of Kinopio

quality of life

when you paint select items and then Copy or Move them to a new space, when you jump to that space from the notification button, those items will be selected so you can find them more easily

Before, when creating a new space you’d have to choose between creating a ‘normal’ space, or a ‘journal’ space. Now all spaces gain the flexibility to be more journal-like with date cards and the ability to append today’s date to the name.

If you have previously created journals, they’ve been added to a ‘Journals’ group, so you can still find and filter on them. More details:

Merging regular and journal spaces functionality

Spaces open faster, cards updates faster, over the last two quiet weeks almost everything got oiled and tuned.

Details in

IndexedDB for storing local data

Eiko Font

An elegant header font for the very finest of spaces

Just a nice little quality of life thing.

When shift-dragging an item to snap its position to a grid, handy guide lines are to shown to help maintain horizontal or vertical alignment across a long drag distance.

Fixed a bug preventing notifications (e.g. someone faved or added cards to your space) to be saved to the

server

Logged operations now show their special requestId that to make debugging

server

issues easier

Fixed an issue that could cause the

server

to crash under some conditions when an operation failed for whatever reason

Fixed a bug preventing splitting/merging cards

Group spaces more reliably show up in your spaces list

Performance up when typing in cards with [[tags]]. In my exaggerated test space, render blocking when typing in a card with a tag went down from 3s to 250ms

Fixed a issue with connection lines not having the correct paths (i.e. stray lines) because card dimensions weren’t properly being updated

Connection lines appear behind locked cards instead of in front

Widened the Explore section and added a tips button to help explain each section to new users

Items in checked boxes have to be completely contained in parent box to be faded out when the box is checked off [x]

When cards fail to create correctly on the

server

for any reason you’ll see an error notification

Spaces with >30 space links now load all links correctly

Improved Panning [New] Hold shift or right-click and drag to pan around. Now a lot faster and smoother.

quality of life

While holding space or right-click to pan, making quick movements and letting go will momentum scroll the page to make it easier to cover long-distances

Improved Hiding Spaces marking spaces as hidden is now scoped to the user instead of the space itself. So if you’re in a group or a collaborator and you hide a space, that space will only be hidden to you (instead of hidden to everyone as before).

Your spaces list now loads faster and spaces in the list won’t jump around after loading. Besides addressing some long-standing bugs, a stable spacelist adds to the overall feeling of speed and solidness

The accuracy of space PDFs has been improved. Also, instead of having to wait in the app for the PDF to generate (which could take a minute~), you’ll now receive an email once it’s ready to download.

Improved PDF Export

(should I add this to the browser extension too?)

help docs

Minimap

Get a birds eye view perspective and jump around big spaces with the minimap by holding the space-key or the right-mouse-button. (You can also open a persistent minimap from the Sidebar)

Recent Spaces in Copy or Move

When moving or copying cards between spaces, you can quick-select your most recently visited spaces. Just a little quality of life update.

Minimap

People who start using groups, tend to really get into groups. So now you can add emojis, in addition to color, to more easily visually tell them apart.

The Minimap dialog was moved from the sidebar to the the footer, so that it’s easier to use in presentation mode

When opening card links, clicking search results, or jumping to boxes from the minimap, they’ll pulse so you can easily find them.

Markdown Link Shortcut [New]

To easily find your templates and quickly edit them, filter your spaces list by Templates.

april-25-bug-fixes.txt

Saying Bye to Glitch

Upload security fixes

More Efficient Images Uploaded card images and backgrounds are dynamically compressed to load much more quickly, and improve snappiness when scrolling – especially in mood-boards and personal photo album spaces.

Recent Fixes

- improved design of copy/move selected items dialog
- re-introduced leave this space button for collabs , in UserDetails
- fix drawing undo/redo
- fix new cards added notification emails to collabs
- fixed space search '/' typing in card name 
- released a fix for non members being able to drag boxes in open or closed spaces
- copy and pasting images into an open card now work
- show card image immediately when copy/pasting image into space (just like drag and drop)

🌺 Today’s Fixes Working on updating all the articles on the Help site and re-checking all the workflows and pro-tips led me to these fixes so far:

- fixed drag and drop image on previous image card replaces previous image
- fixed ⌘/ctrl-click a box to select the cards inside it
- fixed sidebar inbox doesn't display cards if inbox is not already in cache
- fixed clicking sidebar inbox card correctly adds it to current space and removes from inbox

You can now drag boxes to bring them to the front of other boxes. Like cards, each box now has a z-index value.

by Lucas

Card header fonts don't always load

Code block color issue

More Drawing Tools You can now draw with a thinner XS sized brush, and erase your whole drawing at once with the remove button

URL text on dark background

Spacing between cards, vote overlaps card

Lag when moving cards

Bad line drawing cache? with example

Missing letters bug

also improved the ui

"Delete all" button is not working

URL text on dark background

When zoomed out, lines crop strangely

Remove group, possible regression

Set New Card Color Per Space

Boxes Windows bug

Kinopio has been given a full under-the-hood rebuild. It’s the same race-car for the mind, now even faster. This release sets the technical foundation for the next 6+ years of Kinopio.

When your brain is in “Todo Mode” you can now open the Sidebar to see a simple list of all your [] checkbox boxes and cards. Helpful for getting things done after planning out a project, or for checking off groceries.

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